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LEONARD BERNSTEIN '39 sure can throw a party. It was late, one o'clock in the morning, yet all the dignitaries were assembled in the Adams House Junior Common room--President Bok, Dean Epps, the Adams House Masters--to hear the maestro speak about his latest world tour...
...speech's conclusion Bernstein embraced Bok, and Bok referred to one of Harvard's favorite sons as "maestro...
...postwar years, during which Kokoschka cast himself as a maestro appointed to pull the great European figurative tradition out of the grip of abstraction, his art declined in vitality. One soon wearies, for instance, of the view-fromthe-boardroom cityscapes of Berlin, London and New York that he turned out in some profusion for Axel Springer and other bigwigs of the postwar boom years. But to say that his talent collapsed like Chagall's is quite untrue. Chagall painted nothing but cloying ethnic kitsch for the last 30 years of his life. But in some of Kokoschka's last paintings...
...perform two concerts in Moscow and Leningrad under a new U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange, was reunited with his niece Elena, 70, and visited relatives and old friends including Elena, daughter of Composer Alexander Scriabin, who had idolized Horowitz since her youth. While authorities have given the maestro a less than warm welcome, Horowitz clearly retains a special place in the hearts of the Soviet people. A two-hour rehearsal in the Great Hall of Moscow's conservatory left 1,600 spectators cheering wildly. "I think he will remember this until the end of his life," said Composer Sergei Chedbotarev...
...power of positive TV thinking is especially evident in the "faith message" or "prosperity Gospel," a major Pentecostal variant in the 1980s. Its chief exponent is Kenneth Copeland, 49, platform maestro of the bustling Eagle Mountain Chapel outside Fort Worth. Urging viewers to give a tenth of their income to the Lord, Copeland asks himself rhetorically, "Well, Brother Copeland, are you tithing to get?" His answer: "Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times yes! I want to get healed, I want to get well, I want to get money, I want to get prosperous!" Other advocates include Frederick Price...